A JURY has been shown confronting CCTV footage in the trial of a young woman accused of deliberately running down and killing a Perth teenager.
Aya Hishmeh, 22, is on trial in the WA Supreme Court charged with murdering 17-year-old Jacob Cummins in December 2017 and attempting to kill his teenaged friends, Robert Bell, Augustine Janga, Mark Kickett and Anwre Ige, who were seriously injured.
Prosecutor Les Hobson on Wednesday delivered his opening address and showed the jury footage of Hishmeh’s Nissan Skyline speeding down a residential street in Canning Vale and onto the footpath where the boys were standing.
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READ NOWThe court heard Hishmeh was “upset and angry” after her younger brother was struck in the face during a brawl between rival groups of boys at a park.
Mr Hobson said the boys then went to a nearby McDonald’s restaurant and were confronted by Hishmeh and four of her siblings.
Hishmeh allegedly chased some of the boys down the street before returning to McDonald’s, where she discovered her younger sister had been slashed in the arm.
Mr Hobson said there was no evidence to suggest any of the victims had been carrying a knife.
But he said multiple witnesses, including police officers, would testify they heard Hishmeh say she was going to kill the boys.
Prosecutors will allege Hishmeh then got into her car with her then-fiance in the passenger seat in search of the boys.
The jury was shown footage of the moment when Hishmeh’s car veered onto the footpath where the victims were gathered near a bus stop.
She was allegedly driving at 78 km/h in a 50 zone.
One of the victims went “flying into the air”, the prosecutor said, while Mr Cummins suffered multiple injuries and was pronounced dead after failed CPR attempts by Hishmeh’s fiance and a male driver who stopped to help.
Mr Hobson said the evidence pointed to Hishmeh having a clear motive to kill or seriously injure the victims.
“That motive was to seek vengeance against that group of boys,” Mr Hobson told the jury.
The trial continues.
– AAP